HP LaserJet 1200 Laser Printer

The HP Laserjet 1200 is a "work-pony" of the home or small office; and typical HP fashion the Laserjet 1200 series offers a fantastic price with easy access to cheap laser printer toner cartridges. The HP Laserjet 1200 is a "No Frills", cheap to buy, cheap to run staple laser printer.

HP Laserjet 1200 laser printer
A "work-pony" for the home or small office

A laser printer like the HP Laserjet 1200 is needed when you need more copies than you could possibly sit through - let alone pay for - on your old inkjet printer. The HP 1200 Laserjet costs less than $250 and will fulfil all your laser printer requirements and still maintain a low running cost.

The HP Laserjet1200: Quality Laser Printing

The crucial factor in choosing a laser printer over an inkjet printer is the cost per page of print and the HP Laserjet 1200 performs it tasks magnificently with running cost as low as 2.5 cents per page.

Speed, in terms of the number of pages your laser printer will print per minute, is also a crucial factor in choosing a laser printer and the HP Laserjet 1200 is one of the fastest in it's class with an average of 15 pages per minute.

Finally and many would argue most importantly the quality of the HP Laserjet 1200 is great at the price, at 600 dpi in 256 grey scale printing.

Specifications for the HP Laserjet 1000:

Print Speed: up to 15ppm
8MB Memory (expandable to 72MB)
Total Input Media Capacity 250 sheets
1200 dpi x 1200 dpi for monochrome documents
Average Duty Cycle: 10,000 prints/month

HP 1200 Laserjet is Peace of Mind

Buying the Laserjet 1200 is buying into all that is good about HP laser printers, good quality, reliable, easy to install and with the best after sale service in the business you can purchase a HP 1200 Laserjet with total peace of mind.

Drawbacks for the HP1200 Laserjet

So where is the catch?, the cynic asks - the HP Laserjet 1200 is old and has been replaced by the Laserjet 1300, priced at around $400, and reviewed here. The Laserjet 1200 is also difficult to upgrade - you have to open the toner panel and then the left side panel just to get into a another panel BEFORE you upgrade the RAM. And at the end of the day the HP LaserJet 1200 is a small office or home laser printer, rated at only 10,000 pages per month.

Our Conclusion on the HP Laserjet 1200

For the money, reliability and access to support - and more importantly drivers - HP laserjet 1200 is the one to go for. Don't expect those new driver updates any time soon though as this is a discontinued model - limited to a low page per month limit - and therefore limited to the home or - really - small office. The replacement model for the hp laserjet 1200 is the hp laserjet 1300